The ture sucessor to Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault.
User Rating: 9 | Call of Duty PC
If you've played first person shooters within the last five years you know the name "Medal Of Honor: Allied Assault", one of the greatest shooters ever, and possibly greatest World War II game, untill now that is. Enter Call of Duty. While developed by Infinity Ward Call of Duty was made by the same team who brought us MOHAA which is why it retains so much of its goodness. Call of Duty puts you in the shoes of an American, British, and Russian soldier to fight against the Nazis and end world war two. The key thing that Infinity Ward wanted to do was make the single player very team based and not use the traditional "one man army" that most shooters use. The succeded at this with flying colors. Call of Duty really makes you care about your squad, which no other game has ever truly done, because if one dies it will make the mission that much harder for you. The missions are varied and stylish and each campaign has its own special feel, so the game rarely feels repetitive. For example the American campaign makes you feel like you are in a band of brothers gunning it out for freedom. The British gives you a little more of a stealthish spy feel winning the war through information, not battles. Finally the Russian campaign makes you feel like your one lonely Russian in a sea of soldiers. The single player is easy enough for newbies and hard enough for the pros so no matter who you are this game is right for you. After your done fighting the single player war its time to move onto the multiplayer. There are several modes you can play such as deathmatch, team deathmatch, search and destroy, retrieval, and POW. All are fun and fairly balanced and its still manages to maintain its fun nearly a year after the game was released. The multiplayer is a little more fun if your in a clan or play with buddies since you can have you own little squad to gang up on people, but going out solo in multiplayer is still fun non the less. The graphics are great seeing how the Quake III engine it is built in is over five years old. It runs solid even on computers that are below average and its not super gory for those of you that are queasy. The sound is unbelievable and you can see that they really made a stretch to raise the bar and make the sound higher than all games on the market. I have very few complaints about COD. Like many games, it is a little unrealistic, but unless your into hardcore realism, you can deal with it. Also the multiplayer maps feel very similar and don't have that much variation. Luckily there are plenty of custom maps to download. There is also a lot of scripting in single player which, while cool, is overused just a little bit. Finally the mod community is very poor in a game with such a flexible engine. Aside from these three things the game is at the top of its class. Call of duty is one of the few game where its single player out preforms its multiplayer and should be bought by anyone who enjoys a good shooter. 
